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A comment on Mozilla’s Uncertain Future. Parent comment

Re:Mozilla’s Uncertain Future by danieldk on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:55AM (#24167229)
I think this hits the nail on its head, but I would add

v. Intentionally breaking other browsers subtly on Google properties.

i, ii, and v are directly from Microsoft’s 90ies/00s playbook and the regulators are sleeping.

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Re:Mozilla’s Uncertain Future by m-p-3 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:29AM (#24168100)
It's disgusting that the search UI for Google in Chrome is different in Firefox. You can even see that it works fine if you switch Firefox user-agent to Chrome, so there's not even a compatibility reason behind it (and why should there be, we have web standards for a reason).
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Re:Mozilla’s Uncertain Future by RonanTheGrey on Saturday August 15, 2020 @03:45PM (#24171742)
Google Calendar regularly breaks on Firefox. Switch to chrome? Nope not a bad deploy. Switch the user agent? Works fine.

Hard to say if incidents like that are intentional, passive aggressive, or accidental, but they happen pretty frequently.

Same with Youtube. Firebase console. GCP.

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